Tools

List of BPLIM created tools to be used with available datasets
Software	Name	Description	Version	Applicability
Stata	checkmd	Verifies logical conditions provided by a structured csv file, exporting the results to an html file	2022-04-07	General
Stata	validarloc	Verifies if the administrative codes are valid and allows to get different types of aggregations for valid codes according to a specific reference date	2024-03-01	General
Stata	validarnif	Validates the tax identification number (nipc/nif)	2021-10-29	General
Stata	validarcae	Validates the Portuguese Classification of Economic Activities (CAE) codes	2023-02-23	General
Stata	mdata	Provides a set of tools to help users handle metadata. Almost every subcommand of this package uses an Excel file to store or retrieve metadata.	2022-05-02	General
Stata	panelstat	Provides a detailed characterization of a panel data set	2022-04-07	General
Stata	adoinstall	Installs Stata packages in a specified path	2022-01-28	General
Stata	adoversion	Generates a report about ado files currently available to the user and their version. The command searches for ados in the paths returned by adopath, in the order that they appear, producing a text report for each of the paths.	2022-12-06	General
Stata	coconuts	Creates Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) variables for Portuguese municipalities	2021-11-05	General
Stata	mergebbs	Creates linking ids for financial institutions in the Bank Balance Sheet Database (BBS) for the purpose of merging with the Central Credit Responsibility Database (CRC)	2020-09-07	CRC_FRMBNK

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